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cs.CL2022

Competency-Aware Neural Machine Translation: Can Machine Translation Know its Own Translation Quality?

Pei Zhang, Baosong Yang, Haoran Wei +4

Neural machine translation (NMT) is often criticized for failures that happen without awareness. The lack of competency awareness makes NMT untrustworthy. This is in sharp contrast…

cs.CL2022

MELM: Data Augmentation with Masked Entity Language Modeling for Low-Resource NER

Ran Zhou, Xin Li, Ruidan He +4

Data augmentation is an effective solution to data scarcity in low-resource scenarios. However, when applied to token-level tasks such as NER, data augmentation methods often suffe…

cs.CL2023

Distinguish Before Answer: Generating Contrastive Explanation as Knowledge for Commonsense Question Answering

Qianglong Chen, Guohai Xu, Ming Yan +4

Existing knowledge-enhanced methods have achieved remarkable results in certain QA tasks via obtaining diverse knowledge from different knowledge bases. However, limited by the pro…

cs.CL2022

SPACE-3: Unified Dialog Model Pre-training for Task-Oriented Dialog Understanding and Generation

Wanwei He, Yinpei Dai, Min Yang +4

Recently, pre-training methods have shown remarkable success in task-oriented dialog (TOD) systems. However, most existing pre-trained models for TOD focus on either dialog underst…

cs.CL2020

DAGA: Data Augmentation with a Generation Approach for Low-resource Tagging Tasks

Bosheng Ding, Linlin Liu, Lidong Bing +5

Data augmentation techniques have been widely used to improve machine learning performance as they enhance the generalization capability of models. In this work, to generate high q…

cs.CL2018

A Deep Cascade Model for Multi-Document Reading Comprehension

Ming Yan, Jiangnan Xia, Chen Wu +7

A fundamental trade-off between effectiveness and efficiency needs to be balanced when designing an online question answering system. Effectiveness comes from sophisticated functio…